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  • Passing

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Passing by Nella Larsen is a carefully prepared Louisa May Alcott digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone ... Read more

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  • Passing

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Nella' Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (1891- 1964) was a black American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels, of which Passing is her best-known. Though her literary output was scant, what she wrote earned her recognition by her contemporaries and by present-day critics. Passing was first published in 1929 but has received renewed attention because of its close examination ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Nella Larsen. Illustrated

    Passing, Quicksand, The Wrong Man, Freedom, Sanctuary

    by Nella Larsen ...
    This collection brings together the powerful and thought-provoking works of Nella Larsen, a literary voice of the Harlem Renaissance, whose nuanced exploration of race, identity, and societal constraints remains as relevant today as when first written. Featuring Passing and Quicksand, Larsen’s celebrated novels, alongside shorter but equally compelling pieces like The Wrong Man, Freedom, and ... Read more

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  • Passing

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Generally regarded as Nella Larsen's best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities. Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African ... Read more

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  • Collected works by Nella Larsen

    Passing, Quicksand, The Wrong Man, Freedom, Sanctuary

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Nellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories.A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late 20th century, when issues of racial and sexual identity have been studied. Her works have been the subjects of numerous academic studies, and she is now widely lauded as "not only the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Passing

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano, The Ark ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 33 min

    Passing is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, first published in 1929. Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends—Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield—and their increasing fascination with each other's lives A must for all students, teachers, and lovers of the epitome of the mile-high artfulness of the English ... Read more

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  • Passing

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Series series The Penguin English Library
    Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have buried within ... Read more

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  • Passing

    by Nella Larsen ...
    In 1920s Harlem, Irene Redfield has a chance reunion with her childhood friend Clare Kendry. Irene is shocked to discover that Clare has been passing as white, sharing a young daughter with a venomously racist white husband. Each woman grows increasingly fascinated with the other's lifestyle, drawn deeper into an arrangement that moves from precarious to tragic.Written by Nella Larsen and ... Read more

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  • The Nella Larsen MEGAPACK®

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Nella Larsen (1891–1964) was an author of mixed race who wrote from the 1920s through 1930. She is considered part of the Harlem Renaissance, even though she was raised by her White mother and White stepfather. Issues of race and identity permeate her fiction.Her small literary output—just two novels and three short stories—achieved critical acclaim in its day, though commercial success escaped ... Read more

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  • Passing (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Harlem Renaissance Classic of Racial Passing, Mixed-Race Identity, Marriage, Desire, and 1920s Black Society

    Nella Larsen's Passing (1929) is a taut, psychologically acute novel of the Harlem Renaissance, centered on Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two light-skinned Black women whose divergent negotiations of race, class, marriage, and desire expose the perilous architecture of American racial identity. Written in cool, elegant, and often ambiguous prose, the novel transforms social observation into ... Read more

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  • Quicksand

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Quicksand first appeared in 1928. ... Read more

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  • Passing

    Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past—even hiding the truth from her racist husband.Clare finds ... Read more

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